{"id":46049,"date":"2024-10-09T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/two-civilians-killed-by-hezbollah-rocket-fire-in-northern-israel\/"},"modified":"2024-10-09T16:55:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T16:55:00","slug":"two-civilians-killed-by-hezbollah-rocket-fire-in-northern-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=46049","title":{"rendered":"Two civilians killed by Hezbollah rocket fire in northern Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Israel has gone on the offensive after almost a year of cross-border fighting sparked by the war in Gaza, saying it wants to ensure the safe return of tens of thousands of residents of Israeli border areas displaced by Hezbollah rocket, missile and drone attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hostilities have escalated steadily since Hezbollah began firing rockets into northern Israel in support of Palestinians on 8 October 2023, the day after its ally Hamas\u2019s deadly attack on southern Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The military says the aim of its ground invasion, which began nine days ago, is to destroy Hezbollah infrastructure along the border that it says poses an imminent threat to Israeli communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were reports of intense battles between Israeli soldiers and Hezbollah fighters in several southern Lebanese areas on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hezbollah said its fighters had pushed back Israeli troops advancing towards the western village of Labbouneh, attacked others inside the eastern village of Maroun al-Ras, and shelled troops near Mays al-Jabal, which is near Kiryat Shmona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Israeli military, meanwhile, said its troops and aircraft had destroyed more than 100 Hezbollah targets across southern Lebanon over the past day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Lebanese health ministry said at least four people had been killed and 10 injured in an Israeli air strike on the village of Wardaniyeh, to the north-east of the coastal city of Sidon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The state-run National News Agency reported that the strike hit a hotel housing displaced families.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c98yklj023xo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel has gone on the offensive after almost a year of cross-border fighting sparked by the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1598,1365,1300,389,342,3250,1816],"class_list":["post-46049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-civilians","tag-fire","tag-hezbollah","tag-israel","tag-killed","tag-northern","tag-rocket"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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